In light of recent of panic buying UK supermarkets have introduced purchase limits. Asda: 2 hand sanitisers, 24 toilet rolls max. Tesco: 1 Hand sanitiser, 18 toilet rolls & 2kg rice. Co-op: 12 rolls toilet paper, 1Kg rice. Aldi: 2 Trumpets, 1 diving suit & a MIG welder.
During the peak of the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918, WB Yeats refused entry to his Dublin home to Maud Gonne, who had been his muse and a great love of his life. I told my wife this story earlier as I was setting up her sleeping bag in the garage.